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Senior Applied AI Engineer

Culture AmpMelbourneEngineering
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Job type
Full-time
Posted
29 Jan 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

Role Overview

Culture Amp is hiring a Senior Applied AI Engineer to join the Frontier team in Melbourne. This role focuses on building agentic AI solutions and translating applied AI research into production systems.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and evaluate features for agentic AI capabilities and systems using frameworks like LangGraph.
Build and orchestrate data pipelines and integrations for workplace data to create coherent context views.
Build memory across sessions, context graphs, and per-user relational and procedural memory.
Build and evaluate effective RAG, including pre-processing, hybrid search, and graph-based agentic frameworks.
Own the end-to-end feedback loop, including prompt engineering, evaluation at scale, and LLM-powered analysis tools.
Translate customer requirements into technical solutions and write technical documentation.
Partner with product, design, and people science teams to ensure features scale and meet user needs.
Create evaluation frameworks and bias testing for transparency, fairness, and responsible AI.
Monitor guardrails and safety in production while staying current with AI research.

Requirements

Proven commercial experience taking ML and AI systems to production.
Hands-on experience with knowledge graphs and graph databases.
Production LLM evaluation and observability experience.
Experience designing and scaling production-grade multi-agentic systems.
Full stack software development experience, including Python and React.
Strong software engineering fundamentals to write clean, tested, and maintainable code.
Ability to instruct and delegate workflows to autonomous agents with proper feedback loops.
Hands-on experience designing and integrating data pipelines under security standards.
Pragmatic, solution-focused mindset focused on scalable problem-solving.

Nice to Have

Experience at startups or on founding teams working with ambiguity.
Postgraduate degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
Evidence of taking cutting-edge techniques from paper to production.
Experience with evaluation and benchmarking frameworks for AI systems.
Experience implementing GraphRAG or Knowledge Graphs.
Familiarity with people analytics, HR tech, or behavioural science applications.
Open source contributions or public technical writing.

Skills and Tools

Python
React
LLM
RAG
LangGraph
Langfuse
LangSmith
Neo4j
Neptune
PGVector

Salary and Benefits

Equity through the Employee Share Option Program
Learning programs and coaching
Quarterly refresh days and an extended end-of-year break
Monthly allowance for wellbeing and lifestyle
Inclusive parental leave from day one
MacBook and a home workspace setup budget
Five annual social impact days

About the Company

Culture Amp is the world's leading employee experience platform, supporting over 25 million employees across more than 6,000 companies. The platform empowers organizations to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams using people science and a comprehensive employee dataset. Recognized by Forbes and Fast Company, Culture Amp operates with offices globally, including in Australia, and encourages in-office collaboration an average of two days a week.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should visit the official Culture Amp careers page to submit an application for this position.

Skills and tech stack

PythonReactLLMRAG

Questions candidates ask

Where is this job located?

This role is based in Melbourne at the Culture Amp office, with an expectation to work from the office an average of two days a week.

What department is the Senior Applied AI Engineer in?

This role is part of the Engineering department, specifically joining the Frontier team.

What technical skills are required?

Required skills include Python, React, LLMs, RAG, knowledge graphs, graph databases, and production LLM evaluation and observability tools.

What perks and benefits are provided?

Benefits include equity options, learning programs, quarterly refresh days, an end-of-year break, a monthly wellbeing allowance, parental leave, a MacBook with a home workspace budget, and social impact days.

How can I request accommodations for the application process?

You can contact accommodations@cultureamp.com to request reasonable accommodations or assistance related to a disability.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Culture Amp careers page.

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